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A review by mystereity
Fatal Roots by Sheila Connolly
4.0
Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars, but I'm not sure where. I've been reading (and enjoying) this series since the beginning and although I liked this book, I felt like it was confused as to what it was supposed to be. There wasn't much of a mystery, so I'm going to say this is fiction with a hint of mystery and it seemed mostly to tie together a bunch of loose threads from the series so far and to connect Maura's mom and her new family to the series? I don't know.
The mystery (in a loose sense of the word) involved three college students who came to Leap to study Fairy Forts, small circular constructions that dot the landscape in the Cork part of Ireland. When one of them disappears, Maura and Mick go out to take a look around and find a body buried in one of the fairy forts, one that has been buried too long to be the missing college student. There's not a lot of investigating but the truth is soon uncovered.
The only part of the story that I didn't like was there was too much filler. Every new facet was repeated and rehashed over and over - punctuated by Maura explaining, over and over, to everyone in her vicinity that she didn't have a computer, didn't know how to use one and did she mention that her mother abandoned her and just came back into her life? If not, let's let everyone know yet again. So I think this would've been better as a short story minus all the filler.
Overall, I enjoy visiting Leap and the gang down at Sullivan's Pub but would've benefited from a stronger mystery and less filler.
The mystery (in a loose sense of the word) involved three college students who came to Leap to study Fairy Forts, small circular constructions that dot the landscape in the Cork part of Ireland. When one of them disappears, Maura and Mick go out to take a look around and find a body buried in one of the fairy forts, one that has been buried too long to be the missing college student. There's not a lot of investigating but the truth is soon uncovered.
The only part of the story that I didn't like was there was too much filler. Every new facet was repeated and rehashed over and over - punctuated by Maura explaining, over and over, to everyone in her vicinity that she didn't have a computer, didn't know how to use one and did she mention that her mother abandoned her and just came back into her life? If not, let's let everyone know yet again. So I think this would've been better as a short story minus all the filler.
Overall, I enjoy visiting Leap and the gang down at Sullivan's Pub but would've benefited from a stronger mystery and less filler.